PensionBee has reduced its median hourly gender pay gap to 4 per cent, in line with its aim of achieving equality with a variance of 5 per cent permitted due to the overall size of the employee base. The pension provider, which also noted it had a median bonus pay gap of 0 per cent among its staff, said it had achieved gender employment parity across all levels of its business, while figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, presidente de México, aseguró este domingo que los adultos mayores recibirán sus pensiones a partir de los 65 años y que estas incrementarán su monto al doble en 2024. Leer también México. Pensión universal, bazucazo electoral “La pensión universal de los adultos mayores se entregará a partir de los 65 años como se hace cuando se trata de población indígena; la actual pensión se incrementará gradualmente hasta llegar al doble al inicio de 2024. Este plan iniciará...
Tras la declaración del retiro de hasta 4 UIT del fondo de AFP aprobado por la Comisión de Economía del Congreso, el presidente del Banco Central de la Reserva (BCR), Julio Velarde, se pronunció al respecto calificando a los proyectos de “irresponsables”. “Realmente no hay forma de calificar generosamente estos proyectos, son claramente irresponsables. Hay un mañana y realmente estamos destrozando el sistema (privado) de pensiones sin poner alternativas. Uno todavía podría entender (hacer), en el peor momento de la...
Everyone knows the poor die sooner than the rich. Some humans can live past 90, but many don’t have access to the health and wealth that lets humans live a normal human life span. In the last 20 years, all longevity gains for Americans have gone to those in the upper half of the income distribution. Boston University researchers Jacob Bor, Gregory Cohen and Sandro Galea found that income and education gaps in life expectancy widened during the period 1980–2014....
Investment consultants around the globe are asking their pension fund clients to think carefully about two very real concerns that have emerged in passive investing: ESG-related and concentration risks. Some pension fund clients have heeded their advice, reconsidering whether they should be implementing some kind of ESG tilt to their benchmarks and in other cases, looking to take portions of the allocation to an active manager instead. "We are … having exactly these conversations: How much of this risk are people...
By IRS This publication discusses the tax treatment of distributions you receive from pension and annuity plans and also shows you how to report the income on your federal income tax return. How these distributions are taxed depends on whether they are periodic payments (amounts received as an annuity) that are paid at regular intervals over several years or nonperiodic payments (amounts not received as an annuity). Get the book here
Longevity risk transfers by UK pension schemes reached a record level of £55.8bn in 2020, rising above the £51.6bn completed the year before, analysis from LCP and Mercer has shown. Total buy-in and buyout volumes were £31.7bn, the second largest ever recorded in a single year but behind the £43.8bn bumper volumes racked up in 2019, with the record-breaking year instead being driven by longevity swaps reaching £24.1bn. Legal & General (L&G) had a 24 per cent market share, followed by...
New data published by the Investment Company Institute (ICI) shows total U.S. retirement assets grew to $34.9 trillion as of December 31, which is up 7.5% from the end of the third quarter of the year and up 9.3% overall for last year. With such strong growth for the year, the ICI reports, retirement assets accounted for a third of all household financial assets in the United States at the end of December. The ICI update shows that assets in...
La Comisión de Trabajo del Congreso aprobó un proyecto de ley con el que se busca permitir que todas las personas que se encuentren desempleadas puedan acceder al régimen de jubilación anticipada en las administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP) al cumplir los 50 años de edad. Leer también Perú. Hay cuatro millones de personas sin ahorro jubilatorio por retiros en pandemia La iniciativa busca modificar la Ley 30939, que regula dicho régimen. Los requisitos para acceder a este beneficio son...
On a bright Wednesday morning, Agnes Ouma sits on a blue plastic chair outside her neighbour's house, in Jamhuri estate on Ngong road. She is going through her phone book. Midway, she pauses and laments: "Nobody receives my calls these days." She thinks that most of her contacts have blacklisted her. Because whenever she calls, it is to ask for financial help. Since retrenchment, she says, she has been reduced to a borrower -- borrowing without any clear plan to repay. "No...
